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therainbowwarrior4 · 2 days
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Project 2025 is a plan to, in the words of project Director Paul Dans, "...march into office and bring a new army of aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the Deep State".It is organized by the Heritage Foundation, to "muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government", "gut the administrative state" (HUD, FEMA, DOJ, DHS, the Federal Reserve, CDC, FDA, EPA, etc.) and concentrate power into the hands of the President (Leeja Miller, in a video that is linked below, goes into detail on how this would work).Their claim is that "Only through the implementation of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential Administration be successful".The plan includes a [180 Day Playbook](https://www.project2025.org/playbook/), described as "...a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency."
The plan is "the conservative movement's unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025".Project 2025 promises to "rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left" and to "unite the conservative movement and the American people against elite rule and woke culture warriors".Project 2025 lists problems with America such as:* The breakdown of the family* Immigration* The "totalitarian cult known today as The Great Awokening"* The erosion of constitutional accountability in Washington* Children suffering the "toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries"* An "overseas, totalitarian Communist dictatorship" that is "not a strategic partner or fair competitor" and is "engaged in a strategic, cultural and economic Cold War against America's interests, values and people"* "Low-income communities" that are "drowning in addiction and government dependence"* "America's elites have betrayed the American People"* The left using climate change "to scare the American public into accepting their ineffective, liberty crushing regulations"They believe that "These are problems not of technocratic efficiency, but of national sovereignty and constitutional governance. We solve them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves, but by ripping out the trees -- root and branch."
Their broad goals are to:1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life, and protect our children2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people3. Defend our nation's sovereignty, borders and bounty against global threats4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely - what our constitution calls "the Blessings of Liberty"Dans states that "The long march of Cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before".Project 2025 is, in my words, a distinctly terrifying and highly detailed roadmap for:* Installing a Chriso-fascist oligarchy* Rolling back civil and human rights* Removing bodily autonomy from women and transgender individuals* The systematic eradication of minorities and other vulnerable groupsI don't use the words "systematic eradication" lightly or with hyperbole.
They obviously don't come right out and say it, but they state that:* Pornography should be outlawed* The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned* Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders* Telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shutteredThe real problem with the above, apart from the obvious, is that they label the existence of LGBTQIA+ people as "inherently pornographic". They say that pornography is “manifested today through the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology".They say that the fix "starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity ('SOGI'), diversity, equity and inclusion ('DEI'), gender, gender equality, gender awareness, gender sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists".They also state that "The president should direct agencies to rescind regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, sex characteristics, etc."
They want to "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family" which would remove protections for same-sex marriage.Leeja Miller helpfully points out that the above language does not simply include transgender individuals, it includes cis women as well. I'd argue that removing the DEI language also allows them to target anyone that isn't a white, cis, heterosexual, evangelical (or other approved flavor of Christianity) male.Some other points of note:* They want to eliminate the Department of Education* They want to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory* They want to bring back the practice of impounding funds
**References*** A direct link to a PDF copy of the project's Policy Agenda, aka their "Mandate for Leadership": [https://thf\_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025\_MandateForLeadership\_FULL.pdf](https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf), this can be found on the Policy page of the Project 2025 website.* A video from Leeja Miller: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k3UvaC5m7o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k3UvaC5m7o)* An NPR article focusing on the climate policy aspect: [https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192634090/if-republicans-win-the-white-house-in-2024-climate-policy-will-likely-change](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192634090/if-republicans-win-the-white-house-in-2024-climate-policy-will-likely-change)* A UC Berkeley write up: [https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2023/11/17/project-2025-democratic-doomsday/](https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2023/11/17/project-2025-democratic-doomsday/)* An article from the NECC Observer: [http://observer.necc.mass.edu/blog/2023/11/20/the-danger-of-project-2025/](http://observer.necc.mass.edu/blog/2023/11/20/the-danger-of-project-2025/)* An article from PBS: [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision)
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sayruq · 1 month
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politijohn · 8 months
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Gov. Abbott installed circular saws in the Rio Grande. Migrants have already been caught and died in these “river walls.” This is clearly meant to hurt and kill more. Blatant human rights violation if that wasn’t immediately clear
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Some anti-immigration enforcement advice from Plymouth Anti-raids.
They are also reporting immigration officers out in Plymouth, so if you are in the area, keep an eye out for them!
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reasonsforhope · 1 year
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“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.
The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.
Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.
Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.
It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.
But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?
...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.
The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.
And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”
-via Vox, 1/27/23
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The prime minister of the UK has just confirmed that he will change the law to allow the conservative party to forcibly deport immigrants to Rwanda.
The SUPREME COURT of the UK found this policy unlawful, the government were told they CANNOT do this.
Their response? Change the law
This policy is a threat to the lives of refugees who fled here seeking support and asylum, as a country we should be kind and welcoming. Instead these poor people are being sent straight back into the instability and violence they risked their lives to escape.
Rwanda has a history of being used to 'sweep refugees under the rug', having signed a similar deal with Israel. The supreme court found that Rwanda has previously violated laws protecting immigrant against refoulement, as it has sent people back to the nations they fled. Directly violating international treaties and violating the rights granted to refugees and asylum seekers.
Sunak also stated that he will not allow the European human rights court to block this policy and will revisit any treaties that may act as "obstacles" to this policy.
They are trying to get out of THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS! The refugge system in Rwanda is so unsafe that this is a human rights issue! And our government want to violate those rights for thousands of immigrants they are determined not to help.
These people are hell bent on making life miserable for refugees. The deputy chair of the conservatives stated the government should "ignore the law and start the flights anyway".
Rishi Sunak is also introducing "emergency legislation" in order to force this through parliament and the courts.
Where have we heard that before?
These are the same emergency powers that allow laws to be passed without parliamentary votes. The same emergency powers that enabled the "war on terror" so the UK and US could commit war crimes. The same emergency powers used by the nazis to legitimise the holocuase
This is facism! Plain as day.
I am very very worried for the future of my country and the future of this world. Facism is not on the rise, it is here. We must watch very very closely, at home and abroad, so that we can act accordingly and protect ourselves.
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The Canadian and Jamaican governments are investigating allegations that an Ontario farm sent a group of Jamaican migrant workers home after they held a one-day strike to protest what they described as substandard living conditions.
Pearnel Charles Jr., Jamaica's minister of labour, says he met four of the five workers in question after a local newspaper reported they'd been expelled from Canada as "payback" for their work stoppage, and for blowing the whistle about their treatment to the media. 
"They expressed to me that they were disappointed with being returned early, which I think is normal and understandable. And they had some questions as to exactly what the reasons were," Charles Jr. told As It Happens guest host Katie Simpson.
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada
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skyblr-hunger-games · 5 months
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I hate to bring politics onto this blog, but I feel it needs said:
This blog supports LGBT rights
This blog supports Palestinian freedom
This blog supports BLM
This blog is pro-choice
This blog believes that trans women are women and trans men are men
This blog values undocumented immigrants
If you do not support any of these things, do yourself a favor and unfollow me.
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iww-gnv · 9 months
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USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida spoke to a dozen immigrant workers in the Florida Panhandle, some who have lived in the state for more than 20 years, others who recently migrated.   All said their community is worried. Many plan to leave, they added, if they haven’t already left. 
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bfpnola · 8 months
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what’s been going on regarding migrants in NYC! working on sharing tiktoks more bc i save so many of them!
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phantom-of-the-memes · 5 months
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One of the funniest videos of a fascist getting owned.
Claims to care about preserving Irish culture (as if immigrants are a threat to this) but can’t even fucking speak Irish. Absolute loser.
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humanrightsupdates · 5 months
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Landmark Australian Ruling Rejects Indefinite Immigration Detention
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In a landmark decision on Wednesday, Australia’s high court ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful. The decision overturns a 2004 ruling that held that noncitizens without visas could be detained indefinitely, so long as the government intended to remove them as soon as “reasonably practicable.”
The current case centered around a stateless Rohingya refugee facing the prospect of life in detention. The man was born in Myanmar and arrived in Australia by boat as a teenager in 2012. He had been granted a temporary visa, but it was canceled in 2015 when he was convicted of a criminal offense and imprisoned. Upon completion of his sentence in 2018, the government transferred him to immigration detention. The Australian government had rejected his visa application on the grounds he had committed a “serious crime and was a danger to the community.”
As an ethnic Rohingya, he is effectively denied citizenship under Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law. Six other countries the Australian government had asked to resettle him also rejected him.
In the November 8 ruling, the high court determined that because there is no real prospect the man could be removed from Australia in the “reasonably foreseeable future,” his continued detention is unlawful, and he must be released immediately.
The ruling could trigger further immigration detention releases. There are reportedly 92 people in a similar positions who have largely been refused visas on character grounds. Most could not be deported to their home countries because they had a well-founded fear of persecution.
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politijohn · 8 months
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personal-blog243 · 4 months
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Holy shit this is huge! We need to follow this to hopefully see this is carried out successfully but this sounds awesome!
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reasonsforhope · 8 months
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"California will begin paying for free legal help with immigration for undocumented farmworkers who are involved in state investigations of wage theft or other labor violations, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced this week.
The $4.5 million pilot program will provide qualifying farmworkers with referrals for legal help with their immigration status. 
Roughly half of California’s farmworker population is believed to be undocumented. Fear of deportation and difficulties finding jobs can discourage workers from filing labor complaints or serving as witnesses in cases alleging unsafe work temperatures, wage theft, or employer retaliation for unionizing, officials said...
Respecting immigrant rights
Farmworkers in labor investigations who qualify for the new state program will receive a direct referral to legal services organizations that already offer immigration services, such as the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County or the United Farm Workers Foundation, which spoke in support of the program. 
The free legal services workers could receive include case review, legal advice and representation by an attorney, according to Newsom’s office...
Deferred deportation
State officials said the pilot program aligns with a new Biden administration policy that makes it easier for undocumented workers who are victims of labor rights violations to request deferred action from deportation. Because the federal Department of Homeland Security can’t respond to all immigration violations, it exercises “prosecutorial discretion” to decide who to try to deport.
State officials said they won’t ask for workers’ immigration status, but noncitizens granted this deferred action may be eligible for work authorization.
This year, California labor department officials began supporting undocumented workers’ requests for prosecutorial discretion or deferred action from federal immigration officials, including when employers threaten workers with immigration enforcement to prevent workers from cooperating with state investigators. 
“The Department of Industrial Relations’ Labor Commissioner’s Office … was the first state agency to request deferred action from DHS for employees in an active investigation, and that request was successful,” Hickey said. “This is an important process for undocumented workers to be aware of.”"
-via CalMatters, July 21, 2023
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meanevilandcruel · 6 months
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Hispanic Heritage Month!!!
Hispanics, specifically immigrants, shouldn’t stay in the US because “they do the hard jobs, they work construction, they clean, who else will do those hard jobs”
Immigrants should stay in the US, regardless where they’re from, regardless if they do those jobs or not, because they’re human beings. Because they are worthy of coming to a country that is safer for them and their family, coming to a country where they have a better chance (or their future family has a better)
“White people won’t work these jobs because it’s too hard!“ white people, or rather most Americans, won’t work these jobs because of privilege. Most immigrants who come to the US, will work anything as long as they get paid. If it’s under the table pay, they more than likely won’t pass up an opportunity like that. Because you need a form of ID, I believe most places it’s necessary to have passport / birth certificate / SSN, to open up a bank. Some immigrants don’t have that, they don’t have the money, let alone identification for that.
When my dad came to the US the first time, he was 14 years old and worked anything he could. He mostly worked as a bus boy and was paid under the table. He was homeless, worked anywhere that paid him cash, and he lived like that for a long time.
Most immigrants, im sure would love to work something more cushy like an office job, even working at a cash register is a blessing for most. But unfortunately, most of them don’t have a choice but to work places like construction, farm work (picking veggies and fruits), janitorial work, all the dirty hard jobs that people “don’t want to work”.
Immigrants are not cheap labor. They don’t enjoy doing hard work for cheap labor. Unfortunately, majority of the time, it is their only option. We are not people to help better the economy or business because immigrants work for cheap. We are people worthy of love, safety, and respect.
If you are a person fighting for immigrant rights, please refrain from using the argument that we deserve to stay here because we better the economy or because we do the hard work. We deserve to stay here because we are human ❤️
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Great sources for Immigrants (Workers Rights):
UFW (United Farm Workers)
CHIRLA (The Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights)
NNIRR (National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights)
AirLegal (Advocate For Immigrant Rights)
UnitedWeDream
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